Time to hire is at its highest, with the entire hiring process taking roughly 23 days. The length can leave many job seekers less than optimistic when looking for a new career. If you're looking to make a move soon, you may wonder if there's anything you can do to speed up a lengthy process. As a job hunter, you're focused on one thing: getting a good job fast. This book is filled with unconventional ways to get you in front of hiring managers. The techniques in this book are professional, but not common knowledge. Inside, you'll find: Strategies to get the names of hiring managers at places you want to work. Telephone tips that can help you leapfrog over other job hunters. Online search advice that can give you an "intelligence" edge. Advice on how to deal with Human Resources, one of the biggest obstacles in getting a job. You can keep looking for work the way you are now. OR, you can try another approach.

Are you looking for a new job? What's the best way to start a job search, find companies who want to interview you, and get hired? This book has helped tens of thousands of job seekers to work around the world, including many who considered that they were locked out of the employment market. As important as helping people to work is, it also helps people maintain their self-esteem as they are going through the process. Your worth as a person, as a worker, is never tested by current selection processes.

The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.

In this book, you’ll read the story of one person’s task to create innovation within his company. Although the characters are fictitious, they represent real successes—and failures—garnered from thousands of interviews, training sessions, and system deployments in organizations around the globe. You’ll recognize the issues that arise in engineering, marketing, intellectual property and deployment, and how they’re solved. In this, you’ll find your key to success.

The intention of this book is to provide insight to Students, Graduates, and those looking make a career move. Formal education often provides top-tier training in regards to job functions and tasks. However, the majority of graduates have found that they are unprepared to network, interview, and land the jobs they seek. This book provides readers with another level of training. Readers will learn what employers are looking for and how to differentiate themselves from their competition. There is far more to getting a job than simply being able to do it. This book shines a spotlight on what those missing elements are. "This priceless wisdom has been cast down from hundreds of phenomenal leaders. I have chosen a life of learning from passionate husbands, wives, and community leaders who also happen to be multi-millionaires. These men and women have instilled in me values that will impact generations to come. Regardless of whether you have a college degree or not, you can be as successful as you choose to be. Success is by choice, it is not by chance. From Yale or Jail is meant to relay the message that companies are NOT looking for drones to simply do what they are told. In this rapidly changing economy, company leaders are seeking employees and colleagues who have an understanding of the world around them. They are looking for people who can help them navigate their companies through these turbulent and often dangerous waters. They know that amid these changes lay opportunities to grow, expand, and innovate. Companies need creative thinkers who can see challenges, develop solutions, and innovate. These are the people who make the greatest impact. They enhance services, invent products, and empower others to succeed. The world needs YOU running on all cylinders... Are you ready to make a difference?" From the back cover

Faster Together Accelerating Your Team's Productivity There are more roadblocks to productivity today than ever before. Everyone who works must deal with countless emails, constant communication, cascading deadlines, and seemingly endless meetings. These can be managed efficiently, or they can be a huge time suck. When you're surrounded by slow-moving coworkers, you're stuck in a traffic jam of sorts. What makes the difference isn't individuals working harder or faster or smarter but “teaming well.” You have at your disposal what Stack calls “the most powerful productivity machine in existence”: your team. Individual productivity is just the beginning of business profitability; the real winner is team productivity. A good team can accomplish more, and more quickly, than any one Lone Ranger. Yes, there are always stars—in sports, Peyton Manning, Mia Hamm, and Stephen Curry come to mind—but they couldn't do their jobs without the rest of the team doing theirs. Bestselling author Laura Stack's FAST model mobilizes teams to be the most effective they can be, while keeping each other's best interests at heart. Using her original model, teams learn to work together Fairly, accept Accountability, apply Systems Thinking, and maximize available Technology. An interactive assessment helps you evaluate your team's current speed and rate of acceleration. By the end of this book, you'll truly understand the abilities of your team. Team members will ask themselves, “How can I help my team go faster together?” You work to save everyone else time, and they work to save you time. For your business to win, everyone must contribute. As Stack puts it, “Team up; don't slow down!” So, rev your team's engines, and you'll soon be roaring down the track together!

Help Wanted! If you're aiming for a new job in 2015, you're in luck. The economy is expected to add hundreds of thousands of new jobs this year, many of them high-paying positions in almost every industry sector. But in order to land that great new job, you also need a plan, and strategies to help you market yourself both online and off. No matter if you're out of work and searching for a new job - or you're looking to make a job or career change - you're going to need help. It's a super competitive employment market - especially for the best jobs - and you need know the best ways of standing out and catching the eye of a recruiter or employer. All of this and more is covered in Top Job Search Strategies For 2015. The book is loaded with valuable tips and strategies to help you locate your ideal job, research potential employers, set up online profiles, build a personal network, and much more. So don't sit on the sidelines any longer. Purchase this book, and be on your way to finding a great new job in 2015!

Twelve stories, fraught with an unapologetic voice of firsthand experience, that pry the lock off of the addiction, fanaticism, violence, and fear of characters whose lives are mired in the darkness of isolation and the horror and the hilarity of the mundane. This is the Deep South: the dark territory of brine, pine, gravel, and red clay, where pavement still fears to tread. Contains interior illustrations by Ryan Murray and Patrick Traylor. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Schuler Benson writes like the spawn of Chuck Palahniuk and Barry Hannah. While approaching his subjects with empathy, humor, and a keen eye for detail, he creates a world of snake-charming preachers, meth heads, and spurned lovers. This collection will make you laugh, make you anxious, and keep you turning the pages. Read this damn book." -Kody Ford, The Idle Class Magazine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A Breece D'J Pancake of the plains, Benson writes with a hell of a knack for dialect. His characters are dirty, flawed, and all-too familiar. There are no heroes here. Yet in these stories, Benson manages to lift his people to another plane; someplace where they might achieve a little redemption." -Eric Shonkwiler, author of Above All Men ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Schuler Benson has a playwright's ear for dialogue, a poet's eye for scene, and a comic's sense for when the sane is actually crazy, the crazy actually sane. The Poor Man's Guide to an Affordable, Painless Suicide announces Benson's place in the tradition of Wells Tower, Barry Hannah, and Mark Twain: here comes another great documentarian of the agonized and hilarious souls who inhabit Rural America." -Brian Ted Jones, Electric Literature ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Find out more about Alternating Current Press at http://www.press.alternatingcurrentarts.com.

Job seekers and students looking for a career will find the inside scoop on networking, interviewing, negotiating job offers, succeeding on the job, and much more to have a big advantage in getting a job quickly. Intelligent strategies help readers avoid common job search pitfalls, power up their resumes, use search firms to their advantage, and orchestrate a targeted direct-mail campaign. The Ultimate Job Search is filled with tools to guide job seekers through the job search process. Helpful self-assessment exercises allow students to define a job objective. Resume writing tips and formats allow job seekers to create magnetic correspondence. Readers gain information on how to shine during the interview, receive valuable advice for negotiating a top salary, and learn the eight steps to guaranteed success on the job.

It’s been a long time since you had to search for a new job. You may be wondering, How did I get this last one so many years ago? What has changed since I last hit the job market? Have I since gathered more knowledge and experience that qualifies me for something better this time around? Where does one get started? The Job Search Checklist is your saving grace! This indispensable guide covers everything from dealing with the emotional impact of being laid off to rebuilding your professional identity. Within these pages, you’ll find solid advice on: • Developing a career plan by taking stock of your experience, abilities, and goals • Crafting an effective résumé and building Internet-friendly documents • Creating a “personal marketing plan” to promote yourself to potential employers • Finding the hidden job market through in-person and online networking• And much more!Complete with downloadable templates, sample cover letters, a range of effective résumé formats, and helpful checklists throughout the book, this invaluable resource gets you on the right path toward your next career and keeps you there.